Evaluations of Colorado judges up for retention in November now posted online

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08/06/2014 02:22:01 PM MDT

Evaluations of 146 judges standing for retention in the 2014 election were made public online on Tuesday, according to a press release issued Monday by the Colorado Office of Judicial Performance Evaluation. The evaluations also will be included in the "Blue Books" mailed in the fall to active registered voters.

The evaluations were completed by the State Commission on Judicial Performance and local judicial district performance commissions, each of which consists of six non-attorney members and four attorney members.

Commissions evaluate judges on a wide range of criteria, including integrity, legal knowledge, communication skills, judicial temperament, and administrative performance, according to the news release. Commissions review information from several sources: Written opinions and decisions, caseload statistics, interviews, courtroom observations, judges' self-evaluations and independent surveys. For the 2014 Judicial Performance Survey Report, surveys were sent to more than 130,000 people having some involvement with the judges, according to the news release.

Commissions produce a narrative for each judge with a recommendation of "retain," "do not retain," or "no opinion." The narrative, recommendation and complete statistical survey results were published Tuesday at coloradojudicialperformance.gov/review.cfm?year=2014.

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